Norman Mailer: The Conservative Leftist
Interview by Jan Henry in the Brooklyn Heights Press, Mailer's neighborhood paper at 142 Columbia Heights. Mailer describes himself as a 'Left Existential Conservative' and discusses Deaths for the Ladies (62.3) and the book he is working on: 'Frankie and Johnny: The Presidential Papers of Norman Mailer' (later 63.37).
“Norman Mailer: The Conservative Leftist.” Interview by Jan Henry. Brooklyn Heights Press, 30 May 1963, 1, 3.
In his neighborhood paper — Brooklyn Heights is his home district since the 142 Columbia Heights move-in of late spring 1962 — Mailer describes himself as a “Left Existential Conservative” (a more elaborated cousin of the “left conservative” self-description in the April 1963 Playboy letter 63.27), and discusses Deaths for the Ladies (62.3) and the book he is working on, given the working title “Frankie and Johnny: The Presidential Papers of Norman Mailer” — the volume that would be published in November 1963 as The Presidential Papers (63.37). The discarded working titles for 63.37 — The Devil Revisited and Frankie and Johnny, Or, The Murder of Good Ideas — are recorded in Lennon’s 63.37 entry.
Related pages
- 1963 | The Presidential Papers | Reading from Left to Right | 142 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn
- Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3)